News In Brief

March 27, 1984

United States Consul General Robert Onan Homme was shot, but not seriously wounded, as he left for work Monday, police said. A Middle East group blamed for previous attempts on the lives of diplomats claimed responsibility for the attack, but police said they did not know whether the claim was genuine.

The Armed Lebanese Revolutionary Faction said in a letter to the French news agency Agence France Presse that it had shot Homme because of his ''well-known activities as a member of the CIA.''